Articles
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Cloverdale Fuel: Biomass Pioneer of the 1940s Continues to Play Lead Role
Early market leader continues to innovate when it comes to woody biomass, fuel and recycling wood waste. Learn how you… read more…
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Victoria “heartened” by Trudeau-Obama commitment to new softwood lumber pact
In the wake of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday placing a priority on renegotiating… read more…
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Behind the scenes: How softwood lumber interrupted Obama and Trudeau’s bilateral bromance
It wasn’t all bromance and backslaps in Ottawa when U.S. President Barack Obama addressed Parliament on Wednesday. Behind the closed… read more…
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Terrace historians rush to preserve forestry heritage
Local historians are hastening their efforts to record the history of the forestry industry in the lower Skeena and Nass… read more…
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How research into glowing fungi could lead to trees lighting our streets
On a moonless night deep in a Brazilian rainforest the only thing you are likely to see are the tiny… read more…
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Invasive Emerald Ash Borer confirmed in Thunder Bay
Following an thorough examination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) – the federal agency responsible for regulating and managing invasive… read more…
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Young, spindly and doomed: The hard life of Montreal’s sidewalk trees
It’s not easy being a tree in the big city. Especially if that city is Montreal. While all urban trees… read more…
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Obama, Trudeau: ‘Signficiant differences remain’ in summit softwood talks
A settlement remains elusive but Canada and the U.S. have edged closer to a job-saving settlement on the softwood lumber… read more…
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Washington plays hardball with a softwood bat
Carl Grenier led the Free Trade Lumber Council from 1999 to 2006. He now teaches at the University of Laval,… read more…
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Study shows trees with altered lignin are better for biofuels
Lignin is a natural component of plant cell walls, the scaffolding that surrounds each cell and plays a pivotal role… read more…
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South African firefighters paid according to Alberta laws, government says
Nearly 300 firefighters from South Africa who came to Canada last month to help fight the massive forest fire in the… read more…
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World’s oldest white oak, age 600, may soon die
A 600 year-old white oak tree, believed to be the oldest of its kind in the world, is showing signs… read more…
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Is walnut graded lower than other hardwoods? Well, it is graded differently
Woodworker and commentator Scott Wunder recently posed this question: Why is walnut lumber graded lower than other hardwoods? Having spent… read more…
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Province-wide slash burning sparks controversy
When Greg Mancuso got tired of working his regular desk job at Folklore Reforestation, he pestered his boss for a… read more…
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Forestry summer camp prepares students to become master foresters
Deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Clemson University forestry students are hard at work. As they trek up… read more…
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Millions of caterpillars are decimating the trees in New England
When the European gypsy moth hatches, it is born as a furry little caterpillar. They emerge from their eggs in the spring… read more…
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B.C. researchers acquire historical collection of dispossessed Japanese Canadian lumber baron
Eikichi Kagetsu dined with royalty, built up a logging empire in British Columbia, employed hundreds of people and established himself… read more…
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SFI progress report shows 500 partner organizations coming together for future forests
Released today, the 2016 SFI Progress Report –Linking Future Forests to Communities – tells the story of how responsible forestry… read more…
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B.C. biomass producers brace for post-Brexit uncertainty
The United Kingdom power is British Columbia’s biggest buyer of wood-pellet biofuels and Thursday’s Brexit vote to leave the European… read more…
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Boreal felt lichen’s surprising decline worrying for forest health
One of the most endangered lichens in the world is a canary in the coal mine for human-caused environmental impacts,… read more…
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Stephen Hume: Time to focus on B.C.’s bread and butter
The provincial government’s grand strategy for revitalizing the coastal forest industry, upon which many communities outside Metro Vancouver are heavily… read more…
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P.E.I. trees being planted in Fort McMurray part of a ‘series of pay it forward gestures’
Over 800 trees from Prince Edward Island are putting their roots down in Fort McMurray soil. Veseys Seeds in York,… read more…
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BC resort proposing a 20-story wood tower on casino property
On Friday, at an event that was held at the Okanagan Falls Structurlam, a manufacturer of cross laminated timber, plant,… read more…
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Research scientists at U of C get nearly $15 million in funding
For Greg McDermid, getting a federal research grant is taking his work to another level. The associate professor of geography at the… read more…
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Second-growth logging beneficial, sustainable
Re: “Clearcut logging leaves shameful sight,” letter, June 16. We are promoting the Vancouver Island Spine Trail as a continuous… read more…